When this writer imagines her Italian holiday, a collage of a margherita pizza served on a chequered cloth-draped corner table, graced by slanting sun rays, comes to mind. Not walking into a cold mall. Yet somehow, in her second outpost in the city, at an upscale BKC mall, chef-restaurateur Ritu Dalmia has managed to capture a bit of the Italian sun and warmth. It streams in at the far end of Motodo, amid an array of greens, through giant glass windows onto cosy rattan chairs, a cluster of pasta-making posters, and shiny salt-and-pepper holders shaped like aubergines — the chef’s favourite, we’re told. 

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